The invention discloses a synthetic method of 2-thiophenylbenzoic acid. The synthetic method is characterized by including the steps of: 1) dissolving raw materials, comprising phenylboric acid represented as the formula I and thiosalicylic acid represented as the formula II, in an alkaline solution and adding anhydrous ethylenediamine; 2) in the presence of a metal salt catalyst and a ligand, carrying out a heating reaction at higher than 100 DEG C for more than 16 h with TLC tracing detection, and when then reactant, thiosalicylic acid, disappears, the reaction is determined to be finished; 3) naturally cooling the mixture to room temperature to obtain a mother liquid, extracting the mother liquid with ethyl acetate, drying an organic layer with anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and performing reduced-pressure rotary evaporation to remove the solvent and obtain a solid; and 4) purifying the solid crude product through a silica gel column, collecting an eluent, and performing rotary evaporation to dry the eluent to obtain the 2-thiophenylbenzoic acid represented as the formula III. The method is simple in reaction conditions and high in yield, is easy to enlarge in large scale, and is environment-friendly and low-pollution.